June in Sports: By the Numbers

Here’s a look at the numbers behind some of the biggest sports stories this past month. Send us suggestions for next month’s edition by tweeting at @michaelkruse with the hashtag #GrantlandStats.

Number of Seattle Mariners who combined to pitch a no-hitter June 8 against the Los Angeles Dodgers: 6.

Number of no-hitters pitched this year so far at Seattle’s Safeco Field: 2.

Number of times a New York Met had pitched a no-hitter in the team’s half-century history before Johan Santana did it in early June: 0.
Number of times an 8-seed had won the Stanley Cup before the Los Angeles Kings did this year: 0.

Percentage by which viewership dropped from last year’s Stanley Cup finals to this year’s Stanley Cup finals: 33.

Number of people who watched the Miami Heat beat the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 5 of the NBA Finals: 18.5 million.

Number of people who watched the Green Bay Packers beat the New Orleans Saints in the first game of last year’s NFL season: 27.1 million.

The record price CBS is asking for a 30-second ad during next year’s Super Bowl: $3.8 million.

Estimated amount taxpayers paid for the eight-week Roger Clemens trial at the end of which he was acquitted: $2 million to $3 million.

Value of the nearly 10 million counterfeit items with logos of different sports leagues, teams, and schools seized since 1993 thanks to the Coalition to Advance the Protection of Sports Logos: $369 million.

Number of games Tampa Bay Rays reliever Joel Peralta was suspended for by Major League Baseball for having too much pine tar on his glove: 8.

Number of pages of the document in which Lance Armstrong’s attorneys argue they still haven’t been allowed to see the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency’s evidence against him: 11.